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CONFIDENZIAL

D.

41.

Community under Article 227(4) of the

Rome Treaty unless other arrangements are

negotiated. If Gibraltar is to maintain

her free port arrangements we shall ·

probably have to negotiate for her specific

includion within the scope of the

Community's directive on this subject; and

bring her arrangements into conformity with

the provisions of this directive, details

of which are attached at Annex IV.

40. It should be noted that, if Gibraltar

becomes part of the Community under Article

227(4), and if Spain successfully concludes

the preferential trade agreement which it

has now negotiated with the Community,

Spain will be bound by the provisions of

that agreement in so far as trade between

Gibraltar and Spain is concerned. The

present members of the Community may be

reluctant to become embroiled in this

particular political problem, but it would

be in our interests to achieve for

Gibraltar the inclusion in the Community

which would be her legal right.

Conclusions

Our negotiating objectives for the

Commonwealth can be summarised as follows:

(a) special arrangements for New Zealand's

dairy producers and developing

Commonwealth sugar producers. These

are dealt with elsewhere;

(b) reactivating where still appropriate

the provisional agreements reached in

1962 in so far as they relate to

Commonwealth countries in Asia,

/Africa